Non-IT News Thread
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Harvey: Fears grow over severe flooding risk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41064451 -
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Rain has made it to the big D. Around Texas, that stands for the Big Dry these days. No hurricanes here.
My wife's family is in the disaster zone south of Houston, though. Coast Guard is out there rescuing people far inland in what used to be streets.
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What's amazing is the whole country knew Houston was in for a disaster, but locally they told them it would be fine and to stay put. Now everyone is trapped.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
What's amazing is the whole country knew Houston was in for a disaster, but locally they told them it would be fine and to stay put. Now everyone is trapped.
Isn't that the same thing that happened with Catrina?
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
What's amazing is the whole country knew Houston was in for a disaster, but locally they told them it would be fine and to stay put. Now everyone is trapped.
Isn't that the same thing that happened with Catrina?
Yup, exactly the same. But people had experience from Katrina and should have known not to listen when the government told them to stay.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
What's amazing is the whole country knew Houston was in for a disaster, but locally they told them it would be fine and to stay put. Now everyone is trapped.
Isn't that the same thing that happened with Catrina?
Yup, exactly the same. But people had experience from Katrina and should have known not to listen when the government told them to stay.
Houston is a Hurricane zone too, so what it different for them. They should have known.
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@texkonc said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
What's amazing is the whole country knew Houston was in for a disaster, but locally they told them it would be fine and to stay put. Now everyone is trapped.
Isn't that the same thing that happened with Catrina?
Yup, exactly the same. But people had experience from Katrina and should have known not to listen when the government told them to stay.
Houston is a Hurricane zone too, so what it different for them. They should have known.
And now people south of the city are trapped there, because 45 and 610 are gone.
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I'm interested to see what business impacts this may have because of this disaster, let alone society as a whole.
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
I'm interested to see what business impacts this may have because of this disaster, let alone society as a whole.
Houston is looking at years of damage.
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Rumour is that the Army Corp of Engineers is at the breaking point and is going to have to open some of the dams to relieve pressure from the reservoirs. This will empty into the already flooded bayous on the west side of the city and will destroy more neighbourhoods.
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In other words, devastation of an entire metropolitan city (4th largest in the US), along with an entire economy, 1-2 less ports for imports/exports, which means even higher prices of fuel and other goods.
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
In other words, devastation of an entire metropolitan city (4th largest in the US), along with an entire economy, 1-2 less ports for imports/exports, which means even higher prices of fuel and other goods.
That's probably trivial to our largest supplier of oil said that they are cutting us off after the US sanctioned them and threatened to invade them. The threat is that Citgo is about to shut down, along with its entire oil supply chain.
Houston is the fourth largest city, but sixth largest metro. You mixed the terms. Dallas is significantly larger than Houston by metro and Philly is in between. Houston just has more people within the city limits.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
That's probably trivial to our largest supplier of oil said that they are cutting us off after the US sanctioned them and threatened to invade them.
While Venezuela is a large exporter to the US, they are far from our largest source.
2016 numbers: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_epc0_im0_mbblpd_a.htm
I did the math for you. 9.41%
Country Thousand Barrels per Day Canada 3256 41.34% Saudi Arabia 1097 13.93% Venezuela 741 9.41% Mexico 582 7.39% Other 2201 27.94% Total 7877 100.00% -
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
The threat is that Citgo is about to shut down, along with its entire oil supply chain.
And Citgo was specifically exempted from the sanctions.
If the Venezuelan government wants to completely screw themselves by shutting down Citgo, that is totally their choice. Venezuela has been losing share for years now. The rest of OPEC (of which Venezuela is a member) has plenty of other capability if the U.S. wants it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Houston is the fourth largest city, but sixth largest metro. You mixed the terms. Dallas is significantly larger than Houston by metro and Philly is in between. Houston just has more people within the city limits.
Even if you mix in Fort Worth, it does not overtake Houston.
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@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Houston is the fourth largest city, but sixth largest metro. You mixed the terms. Dallas is significantly larger than Houston by metro and Philly is in between. Houston just has more people within the city limits.
Even if you mix in Fort Worth, it does not overtake Houston.
DFW has always been larger. 7.2m to 6.3m. It's quite big here. That's why it's the Big D.
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I had looked that up just recently so knew it had a million person lead on Houston. It was only 100K larger when we first moved here. DFW is growing so quickly that it's only like a decade short from being expected to overtake Chicagoland!
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Oh, Houston has moved up to #5 now, though. And Philly has fallen down. Philly was in between DFW and Houston/Woodlands back when we moved down here. The Texaplex cities are definitely growing faster than anyone else high on the list.
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What's truly amazing there is just how enormous Detroit remains. Unlike most of the others, Detroit does not feel like a giant metroplex.
